Ubuntu
acpi-support package

  1. Bug #59695
  2. Comment #180

Comment 180 for bug 59695

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chrischan (nixlinder) wrote :

Hi everybody,

I have a VIA Epia board (EX10000EG) and a pretty new Western Digital 1 Terabyte WD10EACS drive. I am running Ubuntu 7.04, but I also tested with 7.10. No laptop mode, no fiddling with ACPI, just standard setup. Harddrive ACPI is disabled in BIOS. Nevertheless, can hear the drive load/unload every few seconds, my load cycle count is 5678 after 86 hours. The commonly mentioned fix "hdparm -B 254 /dev/hda" gives me

/dev/hda:
setting Advanced Power Management level to 0xFE (254)
HDIO_DRIVE_CMD failed: Input/output error

Can anyone comment on this latter issue or on the fact that I see this problem not on a laptop but on a desktop machine?

Best regards
Chrischan